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UCSF Children’s Hospital and UCSF Medical Center have partnered with Skype to help connect hospital inpatients with family members and friends who are unable to visit in person. The innovative new collaboration is the first such partnership between Skype and a hospital.
UCSF’s Louann Brizendine, author of “The Male Brain” and “The Female Brain” will talk at UCSF on April 29.
About 250 high school girls gathered recently to hear speeches by local leaders and to discuss issues ranging from teen pregnancy to self esteem.
The campus community is invited to develop an action plan to help Haiti rebuild from the devastating earthquake at a student-driven summit at UCSF Mission Bay on April 24.
Members of the UCSF community are hailing the recent presidential memorandum requiring that hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid “may not deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.”
Insight into pneumonia deaths due to antibiotic-resistant <cite>Staphylococcus aureus</cite> infections emerges from UCSF study.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann will host a series of focus groups and a campuswide town hall meeting to get input on the preliminary recommendations from the project known as “Operational Excellence,” according to Senior Vice Chancellor John Plotts. Read the full story on the budget website.
Robert Wachter has once again made the list of the nation’s top physician executives, along with the US Surgeon General and leaders of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann will host a series of focus groups and a campuswide town hall meeting to get input on the preliminary recommendations from the project known as “Operational Excellence,” according to Senior Vice Chancellor John Plotts.
The UCSF community is invited to watch a screening of “Tapped” today at 6:30 p.m. in Genentech Hall Auditorium at the Mission Bay campus.
Kevin Barrows, MD, has been appointed as director of Clinical Programs for the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
The public is invited to a free forum on new research and emerging treatments in mental health at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute on April 24.
At the April 22 event, Warriors team captain and center Ronny Turiaf will share why he is committed to heart health education for athletes and underprivileged individuals, and how it led to the development of his Heart to Heart Foundation.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Samuel Barondes, Howard Fields and Deepak Srivastava will be inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) at a ceremony on October 9.
The UCSF community is invited today (April 19) to hear Ken Dill deliver the 53rd Faculty Research Lectureship at Mission Bay.
Noxious and downright painful stimuli are a given in every life, but they also often provide useful warnings to get out of harm’s way.
The UCSF community can vote for their favorite act beginning today in “UCSF’s Got Talent” show, a live competition which is slated for May 3.
The UCSF School of Medicine is ranked among the top five medical schools in the nation in a new survey on “America’s Best Graduate Schools” conducted by <i>U.S. News & World Report</i>.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann recently urged stem cell researchers to focus on the primary goal – making new treatments broadly available to benefit patients.
A new report, based in part on case studies of the UCSF School of Medicine and Stanford University School of Medicine, has determined five elements critical to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in medical schools and ultimately, the physician workforce. <a href="http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/new-ucsf-report-identifies-steps-to-increase-diversity-in-medical-workforce/">Read the news release</a>.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann recently congratulated members of the UCSF community who have served at the University for a decade or longer.